Noise, Heat and performance....

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altcon

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The recent trend in GPU's seems to lead to higher clock speeds for serious gains coupled with multiple ALU capabilites for pipe. We now have 600+ mhz behemoths from both majot HIV's.
It leads me to wonder what they feel like in your system.
So if you have a X1900/X1800 or 7900 GPU in your system, what's the influence?
Noise?Heat and of course mouth wattering performance....

Im very curious what end users feel, having read all the major reviews.
Much Apreciated!
:)
 
The 7900GT is a fairly noisy card. It does however run very cool compared to the other high end GPUs. 43C idle and 63C load are the temps, some of the others can break 80C load. It is a very nondescript card compared to the others. It doesn't look like a fast card, mainly because of the puny stock heatsink it uses. No fancy lights, it isn't a 2 slot cooler, so its a fairly simple solution.
 
Noisy? I cant really hear my 7900gt at all! my 7800gt was LOUD. My idle is 47c load 59c. I baught the stock 7900gt but was able to OC to 550/760.
 
My 7800GTX 512 was the fastest / quietest card I have ever used.
Even when clocked at 600/1800, the card ran at 39c idle and 51c load

now my X1900XT clocked at 679/794 runs at 43/54 idle load, however it is a bit noisier.
the performance is worth it though.

Still kind of sad to see the 7800GTX 512 go ... :(
 
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